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Success of sky-polarimetric Viking navigation: revealing the chance Viking sailors could reach Greenland from Norway
According to a famous hypothesis, Viking sailors could navigate along the latitude between Norway and Greenland by means of sky polarization in cloudy weather using a sun compass and sunstone crystals. Using data measured in earlier atmospheric optical and psychophysical experiments, here we determi...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765673 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172187 |